Idiot magnet cars

I have a 2007 Rav4 as a daily driver. It is perfectly fine as a safe soulless appliance to cart my family around. However, It seems to be a magnet for idiotic drivers, in non serious buy annoying ways.

In 2008, some monkey on a bike hits me while I am at a stop light. Bike dents fender/hood. Brakeless BMX FTL. Being a pedestrian/car incident I tell the guy on the bike to get out of here. He tried to get money out of me.. His fault. Move along. Never heard from him again. NEver got the dent fixed.

In 2011, Someones car door catches a gust of wind and it hits our car door leaving a giant half moon shaped dent. My wife didn't notice it until two days later, due to all the salt dust on the car. Thank you CT.

Yesterday, a Mercedes ends me at a stop sign. Gently, but what a pain. Kids are in the car, noone is hurt. I don't call the police because they take forever to come for these tiny fender benders that are not blocking traffic. Seattle police do not hang out where I live due to relatively low crime. He admitted fault to me, but now I need my insurance co to battle it out with his insurance company.

I want this vehicle gone, because it seems to be an idiot magnet. Anyone have such an experience? I would dump it, but it's not 100% paid off yet, soon.

Nerf bars

Time to cage it.

That or paint is bright yellow.

I call it car vibes. Some are good others are not. I move the bad ones on. I have accepted that it is a cars way to telling me to sell it.

In reply to Toyman01:

Doesn't help. McTinkerson has a bright green JKU that got rear ended. The first words out of the lady's mouth were "I didn't see you!"

Then she repeated those words to the attending police officer, who eyeballed the neon green body-on-frame behemoth and issued a ticket.

I'm with the exo-cage idea but with zoomie header(s) out the top of the hood.

dean1484 wrote: I call it car vibes. Some are good others are not. I move the bad ones on. I have accepted that it is a cars way to telling me to sell it.

I think it's time has come.. Wait until my stock vests in October...

My Mustang is a deer magnet, on number four now. Only one human idiot, I had no problem getting money from their insurance company to fix, even though no cops were called.

Here's your new nose art.

The B-26 known as "Flak Bait" always came home with holes, even if no one else in the squadron got hit.

My Z had two rear bumpers installed exactly 1 year apart...to the day. The first, was cracked while waiting in line at Taco bell due to the woman behind me paying no attention. The second from a trailer hitch receiver putting a nice perfectly square hole through the bumper while parked. Of course its got a couple minor door dings from inept people parking next to it as well.

That's just my Z

My IS 300 was rear ended while at a stop light because the woman in the minivan behind me "got bit by a bug" and was to busy flailing around the car to put it in park and drove into my rear bumper. Minor damage, and it was a lease so, no bother reporting it.

My Z24 Cavalier got rear ended hard by a woman (who turned out to be pretty cute, and fun for a few dates) in a F150 and pushed under a Dodge Ram. Damn near totaled that one. Insurance fixed it, I promptly sold it. Expensive way to meet women.

My pathfinder got rear ended at a light by a young girl to busy texting to notice the light had changed to red and everyone in front of her was slowing down. no real damage to the pathfinder so I let it go. AS scared and shook up as she was, I think she learned her lesson.

Entire front end got taken off the pathfinder the same year by a head on crash between two other cars. I was in the pathfinder at the same intersection, the wreckage of one of the cars glanced off the initial collision and tore mostly everything forward of the front wheels off my truck. First wreck I've ever been in that was caused by guys. All those cover probably about a 10 year span of driving. And of course no mention of the countless near misses I've avoided over the years. I still drive the pathfinder (after cheaply rebuilding the front end), Still have the Z...I consider neither car cursed...just surrounded by idiots. Its not the car....its the people.

I feel like the Tempos were like that. Then again, they were disposable. Buy one for $500, berkeley it up, and buy another. The small dings and dents we never really worried about. Had one old man back into the front quarter. We felt bad for him because his wife just died, he found out he had cancer, and then his trailer burned down. Never persued that one. Then some guy nailed the back of the car. My dad figured he could trust their patch up job. The zip ties they used to "fix" everything only held out for so long. After about five Tempos, my dad stopped buying them. That's when I started getting my own vehicles and didn't have to share the car with zepra striped furniture in it.

We had an 08 Malibu that had freakin target painted on it. 3 accidents that weren't our fault, hail storm, and last but least (thankfully) my wife dropped it off the edge of a road and blew two tires.

I thought this thread was going to be about mods found on used WRXes and Civics

im usually the only idiot attracted to my car magnet

I had a Karman-Ghia in college that was a virtual pinball. In one incident a friend and I were sitting inside Burger King when a woman screamed "he's gonna hit that car". Turned around and watched as big Mercury t-boned the KG. got fixed after big hassle involving his wife, the woman he was with, and multiple insurance companies. Shortly thereafter I was sitting at a stop sign when I glanced in the rear view mirror and saw a Pontiac barreling down the hill obviously not going to stop. I dumped the clutch and jerked the KG into the front yard on the house on the right. The Pontiac veered right followed me into the yard and rear ended me up to the front porch. The lady said she lost her brakes and didn't know I what to do. I suggested the big open field on the left would have been a better option. Turned out ok. She had a guy set to lowball me on a quote to fix the damage but he got high, got confused and gave me a premium quote instead. Paid tuition that quarter.

My long departed 94 explorer. Rear ended 4x I was stopped waiting for lights or trains all 4 times. Had people back in to it on several occasions. Pushing the bumper back further each time. Pay out from insurance got bigger with each hit. The last one damaged the grill and got a headlight.

Was side swiped by a town plow parked at the local coffee shop. Whole side was shredded.

Then there were windshields. Seemed to attract rocks from miles away.

I used to work with a guy who owned a '78 Bronco we nick-named "The Magnet". It got hit something like three times during one year. He sold it when he transferred to sales and driving something that got 8 mpg became annoying...

1st body shop quotes $2K to fix it. Gotta take it to "Their body shop" now...

I really want a dirt cheap 4cylinder 5 speed accord or something as a daily. Get rid of this noise and get a beetar.

I've been tapped twice already on my integra, resulting in chipped paint, a bent license plate frame and a broken bumper bracket both times. Annoying, good thing the bumper bracket is only 100 bucks from the dealer.

My wife's Volvo S40 hit everything but the lottery. When I sold it, I don't think there was one undamaged panel on it. Nothing hard or serious, just dents and scratches. Did you know if you don't open the garage door all the way, it can hurt your car? She does now!

This is why we cant have nice things... I bought my first newer car in really nice shape and im scared to drive it around for little things like this.

I've been very lucky compared to some of you. I had one woman back into my 77 Monte Carlo the day I bought it at a gas station. The big chrome bumper sustained no damage. She tried to tell me I was going to pay for fixing her bumper. I told the crazy lady that I stood there and watched her back into it, and the cameras did too. She called me an ass then sped off. That's the only time I've ever been hit.

You're in Seattle, you should be used to it. When I was in Portland the same crap would happen. I now live in a tourist town and the only time dumb E36 M3es hit me is when the idiot city dwellers come over for camping... City ppl.... I drove to Monroe,WA one time, it started raining on I-5, in seconds the morons around me slowed to a 10mph crawl. No wrecks. Wtf....

Titanium Grey Miata is sort of invisible. Phoenix Red 914 is too, so maybe it is the small size, more than the unobtrusive color.